
Alex Morton
Head of Housing, Planning & Urban Policy, 2010-2013

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Housing bubble threat underscores pressing need to revise Help to Buy
by Alex Morton | Aug 14, 2013
HELP to Buy has been widely criticised by experts, academics and journalists as a dangerous policy. In the long term, in a supply constrained system, simply increasing lending does not build a single extra house. And due to the planning system’s failures, we have an...
Striking the right balance in the social housing sector
by Alex Morton | Jul 12, 2013
The issue of social housing was a key part of the recent Spending Review. Mark Prisk, the Housing Minister, is to be congratulated on having struck a sensible balance between supporting the sector and requiring that it uses its assets in a fair and efficient way. The...
How can we really tackle the housing crisis?
by Alex Morton | Apr 23, 2013
The Government has rightly made house building one of its top priorities. The problem is the Coalition isn’t being entirely clear about the problem or the solution. Some individual ministers and civil servants grasp that the current system is not working. But there is...
How to build better homes – for both younger and older people
by Alex Morton | Apr 22, 2013
Today, Policy Exchange publishes a new report, Housing and Intergenerational Fairness, looking at the best way to house Britain’s ageing population and contrasting it with a report out by the Fabians arguing for higher taxes on property. Housing and other costs can...Support Us
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